St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-28
LIQUOR men ARE SCARED.
Those Who Have Disposed Of Whisky
and Beer Unlawfully Feeling
Quite Blue.
Judge Young Gives a Few Of the Con-
victed Ones the Full Extent
of the Law.
Some Celebrated Blind Pig Cases That
Have Been or Will Be Heard in
the District Court.

WIN hdfO Vioidtcu Guc law ana incurred
the displeasure of the grand jury are
Sin for it," in all that the term implies,
If the action of Judge Young on yester-
day is any criterion. In the cases
when verdict of guilty was
returned he gave the offenders
sharp talk and then imposed
the most severe penalty the law
allows. The indicted men are begin
ming to feel somewhat alarmed and
nave not decided to plead guilty, as
many OF them have done on former Oc-
casiOnS.
The most sensational liquor case of
the day was the one against Willis
Dent, charged with selling whisky lille
gally. Dent is drug clerk in the en-
ploy of j. NJ. Oliver, 529 Sixth avenue
south, and the Indictment charged him
with, on the LIST day of August, selling
whisky, under the name of soda water,
to PatrOlman Derrick and one w. HI.
Champion, employed by License In
Spector Ray, to look up evidence against
offenders: There is good deal of feel
ing in the matter and it is openly
charged in some quarters that Cranston
used unfair means in securing evidence.
OfHcer Derrick first took the stand. He
and CranStOn went into the drug store,
and after standing around for few
minutes asked Dent, who presided at
the soda fountain, if they could get
drink of whisky. The clerk replied in
the affirmative. and stepping to the end
OF the fountain poured whisky into two
soda glasses, drew in little water and
handed Them to his customers,
who drank the stuff, paid 20 cents
and departed. Champion, me-
diminished man with a long
blonde muStache and future look in
his eyes, was the next witness. He told
substantially the same story as Patrol
man Derrick, but it did not appear to
be received with the same amount of
credit, He was raked over quite Sc
yyerely. by r. L. Penny, Dents attorney,
for being spy, and the shot told, for
he WINGED perceptiblv. After the state
concluded Dent took the stand. He
said that Oh the morning of Aug. 1, the
two men came in and asked for whisky.
He told them no, and they called for
Moxie, which they drank and paid for.
Shortly after they came back, called for
another drink of "the same'' and left.
They then secured an Introduction to
him and again asked him for whisky,
but were again refused. At O'Clock
the proprietor, j. M. Oliver, was put on
the stand. The case was continued until
this morning.
Fred Miller. the proprietor of the beer
garden at la Washington avenue north,
when first arraigned pleaded not guilty,
and retained Albert Knittle, now under
indictment for aiding a prisoner to
escape from the central police
station, to defend. The case was
called yesterday. and from the
evidence introduced it appeared
that it was common practice for him
to allow boys in his place and sell them
all the liquor they wanted. The jury
was out precisely one minute, and then
returned verdict of guilty. Knittle
Immediately moved for a new trail on
the ground of an error in the trial, but
this Judge Young would not allow.
County Attorney Davis moved for SEN
tence, and Miller stepped to the bar. He
had nothing to say, and, after few re-
marks by Judge Young, who took occa-
sion to say that he knew of no crime
more heinous than running young men
and making drunkards of them, except
that of running young girls, Miller was
sentenced to sixty days in the county
Jail, and all order revoking his license
made. This caused Miller to lose his
courage, aid he nearly broke down.
His attorney asked that stay of two
days in the execution of the sentence be
granted, but this was denied, and the
prisoner was taken to Jail.
Robert HOrtenback, against whom
there were eight indictments for selling
liquor without license, and who was
found guilty on one count Monday
morning, appeared with his wife, look
ing as though he had passed sleepless
night. He had nothing to say when
asked if he knew aught why sentence
should not be pronounced upon him.
The court read him the "riOt act'' and
ended by filming him S75 and sentencing
him to sixty days in the county jail.
The young German took his sentence
in an easy manner, and said not word
as he was led away to his dungeon
CELL" Mrs. HOrtenback was not so
cool, however, and tears rolled down
her cheeks as her husband left the room
with deputy sheriff.
The men who have been selling LIQUOR
outside of the city, in the surrounding
town, have also received considerable
attention from the grand, and number
of them-in fact almost all of them have
been indicted. They were all in court,
looking ugly, and cast whitening chances
of contempt at the county attorney.
La Ponte, John Thielen, j. j. Towers,
Gottleib Beisswinger and William Bou-
gard, two indictments, and ''John w.
Bard" who refused to give his true
name, all pleaded not guilty, and on
giving bonds of $500 each had their cases
set for Oct 214.
Henry Barrett, the young man who
attained considerable notoriety through
his connection with the Kelly case
some time ago, was brought into court
on two indictments, charging him with
selling whisky and beer without a
license. He pleaded guilty to one and
the second was allowed to stand. He
was sentenced to thirty days in the
county Jail and to pay fine of $50 and
costs. In case the fine is not paid. thirty
days additional is to be added to the
term of Imprisonment.